English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V - Unknown

bale, ruin, harm, mischief.
ballup, [264], the front or flap of small clothes.
banis, bane.
barking, [336], leather-tanning.
baylyes, [153], bailiffs, sheriff's officers.
be, by.
bearyng arow, [155], "an arrow that carries well;"
see vol. vii.
became, [184], came.
bedene, [77], in a company, together.(?)
bedyl, [153], beadle, the keeper of a prison.
beforn, [41], before, first.
beft, [203], beaten.
begeck, give a, [198], make a mock of, expose to derision.
beheste, [429], promise.
behote, [99], promise;
[96], promised.
beir, noise, cry.
belive, belyfe, quickly, at once.
ben, in.
benbow, [432], bent bow.
bend, [405], turn of a forest.
bescro, beshrew, curse.
bestead, circumstanced, put to it.
bewch, [159], bough.
bigged, built.
bigly, commodious, pleasant to live in.
bil, pike or halbert.
blate, sheepish, foolish.
blowe bost, [55], make boast.
blutter, [195], dirty.
blyve, quickly.
bocking, belching, flowing out.
bode, bid.
boltys, arrows, especially arrows with a blunt head.
bone, boon.
booting, [188], robbing adventure.
borow, surety.
borowe, redeem.
boskyd, made ready.
bote, help, use.
bottys, shooting butts.
boun, boune, make ready;
bown'd, [193], went.
boune, bowne, ready, ready to go;
[244], going.
bour, bower, chamber, dwelling.
bowne, boon.
boyt, both.
braide at a, [145], suddenly, in a moment.
braves, bravadoes.
bree, brow.
breeks, breeches.
brenne, burn.
brere, briar, thorn.
breyde, a start, leap.
breyde, started, leaped, stepped hastily.
briddis, birds.
broke, [91], use and enjoy.
browthe, brought.
browzt, brought.
bruik, enjoy.
bryk, breeches.
buske, bush.
buske, dress;
[54], make ready to go, go.
busshement, ambush.
but, without;
[193], but fail, without fail;
but and, and also.
bydene, [105], all together, forthwith, one after the other.(?)
bystode, put into a plight, circumstanced.

can, as an auxiliary, equivalent to did.
can, know;
coud, knew;
can thanke, feel grateful, (savoir gré.)
cankerdly, with ill humor.
capull, horse.
carefull, sorrowful.
carpe, talk, narrate.
carril, carel, churl.
certyl, kirtle;
[41], jacket or waistcoat.
chaffar, chaffer, merchandise, commodity.
charter of peace, deed of pardon, safe-warrant.
chear well, [190], make good cheer, have a good prospect.
chepe, v. buy;
n. bargain.
chere, face.
cheys, choose.
chitt, [258], worn?
chiven, [405], craven?
claw'd, [194], scratched, curried.
clepyn, call.
clipping, embracing.
clouted, patched.
cofer, trunk.
cold, [259], could, used as an auxiliary of the perfect tense.
cole, cowl.
comet, cometh.
commytted, [120], accounted.
comyn belle, [13], town-bell.
coost, cast.
coresed, [62], harnessed. Halliwell. (A guess?)
cote-a-pye, upper garment, short cloak.
coud, could, used as an auxiliary of the perfect tense;
coud his curtesye, [76], [showed that he] understood good manners.
counsel, secret.
covent, convent.
cow, clip.
cowed, could, knew.
cowthe, could.
crack, chat, talk.
craftely, skilfully.
creves, crevice.
crouse, [192], merrily.
curn, [191], quantity of.
curtall fryer, [272], apparently the friar with the curtall (cur) dogs.
curtes, courteous.
cutters, swaggerers, riotous fellows.
cypress, [411], gauze, crape.

dale, been at a, in low spirits?
dame, [86], mother, i.e. Mary.
deale, part.
dee, die.
dee, do;
deen, done.
deft, neat, trim.
demed, judged.
dere, harm.
dere worthy, precious.
derne, secret, privy, retired.
devilkyns, [57], deuced.
did of, doffed.
doen him, betaken him.
doe of, doff.
doubt, doute, fear, danger.
doyt, do.
dree, bear, suffer, endure.
dub, [196], pool.
dule, lamentation.
dung, struck down, put down.
duzty, doughty, brave.
dyght, [100], done.
dyght, ready, made ready;
dyghtande, [111], making ready, cooking.
dysgrate, disgraced, degraded, fallen into poverty.

eftsones, afterward, hereafter.
eild, age.
emys, uncles.
ere, [86], before.
erst, before.
even, exactly.
everyche, euerilkone, everichone, each, every one.
exaltrè, axle-tree.
eylde het the, requite (thee for) it.
eyr, year.

faem, foam, sea.
fail, but, [193], without fail.
faine, glad.
falleth, [114], suiteth.
falyf, fallen.
fánatick, [414], madman.
fang, strap.
fare, way of proceeding;
[114], fortune;
for all his frendes fare, seems to mean, notwithstanding the penalties suffered by his friends for their bad shots.
fare, go.
farley, strange.
fault, [367], misfortune.
fay, faith.
fayne, glad.
fe, fee, property, wages, reward.
feardest, [197], most frightened.
federed, feathered.
felischepe, [22], compact of friendship.
fend, find.
fende, defend.
ferd, [10], fear;
probably misspelt.
fere, mate.
ferly, wonderful, extraordinary.
ferre dayes, [47], late in the day.
ferre and frend bestad, [69], in the position of a stranger from a distance.
fet, fetched.
fet, fit, song.
fetteled, made ready.
finikin, fine.
flaps, strokes, blows.
fleych, flesh.
flinders, fragments.
flo, arrow.
fone, foes.
forbode godys, [30], gods forbott, [260], God's prohibition;
over gods forbode, [157], on God's prohibition, God forbid.
force, fors, matter.
forebye, on one side.
for god, before God.
forlorne, lost, forsaken, alone.
forsoyt, forsooth.
forthynketh, repenteth.
fostere, forester;
fosters of the fe, [153], foresters in the King's pay.
foryete, [72], forgotten.
fothe, foot.
foulys, fowls, birds.
free, [272], gracious, bounteous.
frend, foreign, strange;
ferre and frend bestad, [69], in the position of a stranger from a distance.
frese (said of bows), [82]?
fu', full.
fynly, goodly.

gang, go.
gangna, go not.
gar, make.
gate, [162], [196], way.
general, [290], perhaps the governor, Nottingham having once been a garrison town. Ritson.
Rather, people;
i.e. in public, with the rest of the world.
ger, [27], gear, affair.
gest, guest.
geste, story.
gie, give.
gif, if.
gillore, plenty.
gin, if.
gladdynge, entertaining.
go, walk.
god, [31], valuables.
gods forbott, [260], God's prohibition, God forbid.
golett, throat, the part of the dress or armor which covered the throat.
gone, go;
ride and go, ride and walk.
gorney, journey.
graff, [225], branch or sapling.
gree, [64], satisfaction.
greece, hart of, a fat hart.
grithe, [16], peace, protection, security for a certain time.
grome, groom;
[45], a (common) man.

ha', hall.
had, hold, keep.
hail, wholly.
halfendell, half.
halke, [108], hollow?
hambellet, ambleth.
hame, home.
han, have.
hansell, [23], is the first money received in a new shop, or on any particular day. The passage seems to be corrupt.
hantyd, haunted.
harbengers, harbingers, servants that went on before their lords during a journey, to provide lodgings.
harowed, despoiled.
hart of greece, a fat hart.
hase, neck.
haud, hold.
haulds, [195], things to take hold of.
haunted, resorted frequently.
hawt, aught.
hayt, hath.
he, [39], they.
heal'd, concealed.
hede, head.
hee, high.
hende, gentle, courteous.
hent, took.
heres, here is.
het, it.
het, eat.
heynd, gentle, courteous.
hight, called, are called.
ho, hoo, who.
hode, hood.
holde, [61], retain.
holy, wholly.
hos, us.
housbond, manager.
howt, out;
heyt war howte, [23], a corrupt passage?
huckle-duckle, [424], a term for a loose woman.
humming, heady.
hye, in, aloft.
hyght, promised, vowed.
hynde, servant.
hypped, hopped, hobbled.

i-bonde, bound.
i-chaunged, changed.
i-federed, feathered.
ilk, each;
ilkone, each one.
in fere, in company.
inn, [34], abode, stand.
i-nocked, nocked, notched.
inow, enough.
in same, together.
intil, into, in.
into, in.
in twaine, apart.
i-pyght, put.
i-quyt, rewarded.
i-sette, set.
i-slawe, slain.
ither, each other.
i-wysse, surely.

japes, jests, mocks.
jobbing, [374], knocking together.

kende, kent, knew.
kep, catch;
kep'd, kept, keepit, caught.
kepe;
non odur kepe I'll be, [15], I will be no other kind of retainer, I will have no other relations.
kest, cast.
kilt, tuck up.
knave, servant (boy);
knave bairn, male child.
knop, a knob or swelling from a blow.
kod, quoth.
kyrtell, kirtle, waistcoat, jacket, or tunic.